Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-27

pLnOCo VI AnuIo ncib luNdueu Dy Jnls eA-
cursion, and the rhinoceros, and deer, and
elephant, fell under the stroke of
the sabre and bullet. After a while
the party brought back trophies worth
fifty thousand rupees, having left
the wilderness Of India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies Of wild beasts. Would to God
that instead Of here and there a straggler
going out to fight these great monsters of
iniquity in our country, the million mem
bership of our churches would band to-
gether and hew in twain these great crimes
that make the land frightful with their
roar, and are fatenipg upon the bodies of
and souls of immortal men. Who is ready
for such party at that? Who will be a
mighty hunter for the Lord? l remark
again: Ii you want to be successful in
spiritual hunting, you need not only to
bring down the game, but bring it in. l
think one OF the most beautiful pictures
of Thorwaldsen is his Autumn. 4"
1t represents sportsman coming
home and standing under a grape
vine. He has staff over his shoul-
der and on the other end of that
staff are hung a rabbit and a brace of
birds. Every hunter brings home the
game. No one would think of bringing
down a reindeer or whipping up stream
for trout, and letting them lie in the
woods. AT etentide the camp is adorned
with the treasures of the fOrest-beak, and
fin, aud antler.
If you 60 out to hunt for immortal souls,
not only bring them down under the ar
row of the Gospel, but bring them into the
Church of God, the grand home and en-
campment we have pitched this side the
skies. Fetch them in do not let them lie
out in the open field. They need our
prayers, and sympathies, and help. That
is the meaning of the Church of God
help o ye hunters for the Lord! not only
bring down the game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting 80 well that
for seven years he never went indoors.
what enthusiasm ought we to have who
are hunting for immortal souls! If Donitian
practiced archery until he could stand q
boy down in the Roman amphitheatre,
with a hand out, the fingers outstretched,
and then the King could shoot an arrow
between the fingers without wounding
them, to what drill and what practice
ought not we to subject ourselves in order
to become spiritual archers and "mighty
hunters before the Lordw But let me say,
you will never work any better than you
pray. The old archers took the bow, put
one end of it down beside the foot, elevated
the other end, and i. was the rule that
the bow should be Just the size of the
archer; if it were just his size, then he
would 60 into the battle with confidence.
Let me say that your power to project
good in the world will correspond exactly
to your own spiritual stature. In other
words, the first thing, in preparation for
Christian work, is personal conservation.
"0hl for closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
\ light to shine upon the road
That leads me 10 the Lamb"
l am sure that there are some here who
at 3Ome time have been hit by
THE GOSPEL ARROW.
You felt the wound of that conviction, and
you plunged into the world deeper; Just as
the stag, when the hounds are after it,
plunges into Scroon Lake, expecting in
that way to escape. Jesus Christ is on
your track to-day, impenitent man! not in
wrath, but in mercy. Oh We chased and
painting sOuls here Is the stream of Gods
mercy and salvation, where you may cool
your thirst. Stop that chase of sin to-day.
BY the red fountain that leaped from the
heart of my Lord, bid you stop There
is mercy for yOu-mercy that pardonS;
mercy that heals; everlasting mercy. Is
there in all this house any one who can re-
fuse the offer that comes from the heart Of
the dying Son of God.
There is a forest in Germany, place
they call the deer leap'-twO crags about
eighteen yards apart, between 4 fearful
cbasm. This is called the deer leap"
because once hunter was on the track of
a deer, it came to one of these Crags; there
was no escape for it from the pursuit of the
hunter, and in utter despair it gathered
itself up, and in the death agony attempted
to Jump across. Of course, it fell, and was
dashed on the rocks far beneath. Here is
a path TO heaven. 1t is plain; it is safe.
Jesus marks it out for every man to walk
in. But here is a man who says: 81 won't
walk in that path; | will take my own
way" He comes on up until he confronts
the chasm that divides his soul from heaven.
Now, his last hour has come, and he
resolves that he will leap that
chasm, from the heights of
earth, to the heights of heaven.
Stand back, now, and give him
full swing, for no soul ever did that sue
cessfully. Let him try. Jump! He
misses the mark, and he goes down, depth
below depth. destroyed without remedy"
Men! angels! devils what shall we call
that place of awful catastrophe? Let it be
known for ever as "The Sinners Death
Leap"
1t is said that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by three armies Of the
Saracens in the Pass of R0ncesyalles, his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness,
seized trumpet and blew it with such
terrific strength that the opposing army
reeled back with terror; bat at the third
blast of the trumpet it broke in two. |
see your soul fiercely assailed by all the
powers of earth and hell. | put the
mightier trumpet of the Gospel to my lips,
and blow it three times. Blast the first
-"Whosoever will, let him come.h Blast
the second-''seek ye the Lord while He
NAV be found" Blast the third
"Now is the accepted SINE; now is
the day of salvation" Does not the host
of your sins fall back But the trumpet
does not, like that of Roland, break in
two. As it was handed down to ns from
the lips of our fathers we hand it down to
the lips Of our children, and tell them to
sound it when we are dead, that all the
generations of men may know that our
God is a psrdoning God, sympathetic
God, loving God; and that more to Him
than the anthems or heaven. more to Him
than the throne on which He sits, more to
Him than are the temples of celestial wor-
ship, is the JOY of seeing the waDderer put
ting his hand on
THE DOOR-LATCH OF HIS FATHERS HOUSE.
Hear it, all We nations Bread for the
worst hunger. Medicine for the worst
sickness. Light for the thickest darkness.
Harbor from tire worst storm.
DIR. Prime, in his book Of wonderful in
terest entitled Around the World" de-
scribes tomb in India of marvellous srchi-
tecture. Twenty thousand men were
twenty-five years in erecting that and the
buildings around it. Standing at the
tomb, If you speak or sing, after you have
ceased you hear the echo coming nom
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